The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1931, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, FEB. 20, 1931. ISN'T SHE JUST A |OARLING?-OH! ¢ JUST,ADORE HER- You'HAVE NO TOEA \WHAT A COMFORT OHE 19 TOoME ~ (\\Ww’% (O S ' DAILY SPORTS CARTOON MRS ELEN Wi BRINGING UP FATHER BY QoL I'™M GLAD TO G\'T OUT OF THE HOUSE-JLST TO QT AWAY FRoM THE SIGHT OF THAT WELL- VM GOINY' TO ME OFFI\CE - © 1931. Int') Feature Service, 1ne. Great Britain rights reserved. - —By Pap Moopy —HAS ANNOUNCED HERL INTENTION OF TRYNG TO REGAIN HER NATIONAL SINGLES TENNIS CROWN ™IS YEAR. 2o/ 5 sleamsue W TCKETS SHE DOESNT THINK SHE NLL. PLAY IN ANY FOREIGN TOURNAMENTS THIS YEAR- - CONGER WINS OVER KELLER NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 20—Paul| Keller, 800 meter champion of | s MI5S BETTY NUHALL HAS BEEN SPORTING ‘0UR IN ENGLAND BROTHER ACT CLEVELAND, Tenn., Feb. 20.— Six Callaway brothers are foot- ball lettermen at Bradley college. Two of them, Gene and Hugh, EPPALA IS SECOND MAN IN DOG RACE | HELEA'S" CROWN OVEP~\ QUEBEC, Feb. 20.—Emil St. God- dard yesterday won the first lap France, was last night defeated byloi the forty and three-fifths mile Ray Conger, American champion Eastern Canada Dog Derby in three hours miler, in the 1,000 meter race of the | nd iorty seconds. New Jersey Amateur Champion- |# ships. The Frenchman appeared forty-seven minutes Leonhard Seppala, of Nomg, Alas- have been captains of the Bradley 11929. Gene and Frank were centers, Ed |and Hugh were ends and Luke and| Lloyd were backs. Hugh, Frank and Lloyd were on the Bradley squad in one year, 1929. |eleven, Gene in 1925 and Hugh in| By GEO WHAT'S THIS ¢ HOUND \ | The one thing that seems certain abcut Gene Tunney's future is that he will not fight again. There never yet has been a world’s heavy- weight title fight staged on the sands of the Asiatic deserts. When Gene sailed with Mrs. Tun- iney abeard an Italian liner a few | |days ago he talked freely butj negatively concerning his PpIans.| chapel Hill, former big leaguer and Elmer Noble is five feet eight inches There were some things he said he wasn't going to do: He was not going to visit George Bernard Shaw in England. He was not taking Mrs. Tunney to Italy for a second honeymoon. ! He was not bound for Asia with| a scientific expedition. He was merely going abroad and he had no plans. As soon as the liner was well out | a, bound for Naples, the mag-| jazine “Time” had this wee para-j graph buried among the adver-| | ticements: “Major James J. Tunney has ob- ed a three years' leave of ab- nce from the Connecticut Naval and has sailed for Syria in a scientific tractor cara- expedition organized by Vice- ent Georges Haardt of the oen corporation to follow the |route of Marco Polo across Syria, | Irak, Pe! , Afghanistan, Tibet and China. Mrs. Tunney planned 1to accompany him as far as Beirut, Syria. Governor Wilbur Lucius | “Uncle Toby” Cross, of Connecticut, ‘\vho recently majored Tunney for (his staff, expressed regrets.” | (who have been tossing verbal brick- bats at each other because a maga- \zinc printed a story the Old Man |Mauler mever read belittling Shar- | key, might have staged their recon- |ciliation face to face, but for the | prudence of a hotel clerk. ; Sharkey came to town to second |Ernie Schaaf in a bout with Jim | Braddock at Madison Square Gar-| ‘den and learned that Dempsey w: |recovering at a hospital from an |infected finger. Full of sympathy |the sailor headed for the hospital }to register his regrets but Demp- isey had moved out to his hotel. champion and condole with him, {Sharkey marched to the hotel, sidled up to the room clerk, and ‘gruffly asked for Mr. Dempsey. The clery had been reading of the A PICTURE OF THAT BIRD-SEED ON MY OESK! RGE McMANUS \ \WWISH THIS WOZ THE DOg INSTEAD oF 1S PICTOREY BUNN HEARN 1S T0 TEACH SALEMTEAM One Time Tutor of King| Is to Be Baseball Instructor WINSTON SALEM, N. <., Feb.| 20.—The man who taught King George V. of England to throw a' baseball will try to teach the 1931 edition of the Winston Salem Twins of the Piedmont league, to play ball. He is Bunn Hearn, native of for several years past a colorful figure in bush league baseball. | Hearn will become co-owner and manager of the Twins. He is not unknown here, for he performed with the Twins in 1928, | and for the past two years has! been in the New York-Pennsylvania league. It was back in 1914 that the British monarch got his pointers from Hearn of the great American pastime, when the latter was a member of John McGraw's world travelling Giants. Bunn wasn't a real big leaguer then, although he had been in the National league a couple of sea- sons. He had been purchased by the Giants from Toronto after the close of the 1931 season but was selected and called by McGraw for {the trip abroad. The Giants were playing an ex- hibition in London in 1914 before an audience of 60,000 cricket fans, and King George was among them | | The king was interested in the game and asked how the pitcher Jack Dempsey and Jack Sharkey,| § F i held the ball for delivery to the batter. Hearn was designated to !show his majesty how it was done.' L e TWINS NAMED T0 LEAD TEAM BERKELEY, Cal, Feb. 20.—The We Are Members of THE SUPREME SERVICE LEAGUE Which INSURES YOU EFFICIENT RADIO SERVICE When you buy a radio from us, the installation will be made by skilled radiotricians using the Supreme Radio Diagnometer, an instrument that quickly and scientifically locates all radio ills and enables us to make finer and more accurate adjustments. Thus, you are assured the .maximum results and pleasure from your set in the beginning, and an occasional examination by the same advanced sys- tem insures the perpetual enjoyment of your radio. Our highly modernized, thorough and scientific methods enable us to offer you the very best that can be obtained in radio, whether it is the purchase of a new set or obtaining for you the best possible reception from your old one. You don’t know how good a radio can be until you have used our service. Juneau Melody House girls look twice when the captain {of the University of California walks across the campus. That is if they want to sec all of “him.” Because the captain is not one boy, but a set of twins.' The team decided that one of| the Noble boys deserved the cap- taincy, but they coudn’t be told| apart. So both were elected. The brothers are practically iden- tical both physically and facially. tall, while Glenn is a half an inch shorter; Elmer weighs 158 pounds. Glenn 155. In their gymnastic work they enter the same events. The boys, whose home is Seoul, Korea, are 22 years old. VANCOUVER BEATS PORTLAND, HOCKEY PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 20.— In a regular scheduled game in the Coast Hockey League, Vancou- ver defeated the Portland team by' a score of 3 to 2. R Hard times for business usually| means good times for baseball, Ban Johnson, former head of the Am- erican league, said at Hot Springs, Ark. The Atlanta Professional Golfers’ association has announced plans for forming a pro-amateur golf league. PO HIRHH T T IO T L L L g WHY NOT MAKE IT A “SUNNY MONDAY?” A New Automatic Electric Washer WOULD BE A GREAT HELP Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Juneau Douglas Telephone No. 6 L e T e R O T T T 1° ola papers at the Empire oftice.| O]ld Papers for sale at Empire Office Ladies From Missouri Still anxious to see the former| ¢ FOUND in the back of an old cook-book, in the “Uuseful Compedium of Household Hints.” “To test muslin for “filling"—rub a small section vigorously be- tween the forefingers, and note any starchy substance that breaks out of the fibers. “To test for color-fastness—hefore buying wash goods of any kind it is safest to obtain small samples of all patterns and soak in clear water. | Dempsey-Sharkey feud and he recognized the Boston tar. He ithought fast. No one was going to bust down the hotel right over his head. There'd be no second bat- tle of the Yankee stadium with his master’s furniture. | “There is no Mr. Dempsey here,” he insisted. “I never heard of the | gentleman.” That's why they had to make up by telephone. to be winner 50 yards from the fin- | K& finished second in four hours ish but Conger crept up and passed “wo minutes and fifty seconds. him. Conger’s time was two min- | BT SR utes, thirty-three and one-fifth sec- onds. Three have finished school and Frank will be graduated this year. S B TRICAL WORK | Call Schombel. Telephone 4502. Daily Empire wars Ads Pay. “To detect cotton in an ‘all-wool’ fabric and apply a lighted match,” etc., etc. pull the threads apart PHONES 83 OR 85 “The Store That Pleascs™ THE SANITARY GROCERY Now 25¢ PER GAME J uneau’§ Midget Golf Course ENTIRE SECOND FLOOR—GOLDSTEIN BLDG. How funny they were—these old suspicious-of-everything shop- ping tests! Grandmother knew them all by heart, and descended on Mr. Biggs, the linen draper, with defiance in her eye. Her little, moist- ened forefinger shot suspiciously under every proffered length of sheet- ing or dish-toweling. She took nobody’s word for anything! e, William “Red” Espey, of North Carolina State college, who made | _ good in football, is holding the| school’s honors in boxing. But how differently you approach a yard-goods purchase in any store today. A name on the selvage . . . a label on the end of the bolt . . . a guarantee-tag that also suggests a method of washing. These are your safety-signals in buying. To the questions “Will it Wash?,” “Is this pure wool?” or “pure silk?”, the saleswoman has only to remind you of the trade name of the fabric. When she mentions a name fam- iliar to you through advertising, your doubts are dispelled. John Campbell, outstanding Ala- bama halfback, has signed as back- field coach at the University of Kentucky. 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